Inspired by the intellectual tradition of ancient Greek symposia, this two-day event brings together prominent thinkers, academics, and members of the public for meaningful discussions about some of humanity’s most important questions.
The symposium will feature four major sections, each led by a distinguished speaker:
Philosophy: Stephen Hicks
Science: Steven Pinker
Religion: Justin Sledge (ESOTERICA)
Politics: Steven Bonnell II (Destiny)
Each section includes a one-hour featured lecture, followed by a 90-minute debate/discussion and a 90-minute community discussion involving the audience.
We are currently inviting academics throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to express interest in joining our speakers on stage during the symposium discussions.
“Four disciplines. Half a mind on a good day. Somehow, six pedophiles”.
six pedophiles
In keeping with Ancient Greek traditions.
Calling what Steven Pinker does “science” is an insult to actual scientists, but has his star really fallen so far that he has to show up to events like this? Man’s a professional bullshitter but he did bullshit his way into Harvard.
Has degrees in Philosophy. Main interests in Epistemology and Buisness Ethics.
Obsessed with Ayn Rand, writes books against socialism, and thinks the Nazis just took things too far.
Mr. Hicks, you are not an economist.That’s my thought too! Like, sure, in my mind Pinker is a complete hack and not worth paying even the slightest bit of attention to, but in his mind he’s a serious academic. It’s gotta sting that he’s getting equal billing with a shitty twitch streamer. I hope it eats him up inside that fucking Destiny is considered of a similar intellectual level to himself
This is his Lydia Tár moment
Stephan Boticelli: Politics
The guy who thought Erdogan was the president of Egypt?
calling Sexpestiny “distinguished” is laughable
Mister BerelliMy opposition to torture leaving my body as i hear Destiny open his mouth
This guy shouldn’t have intact fingernails
I hope
shows up to heckle everyone.
Honestly an insult to the concept of competence Finkelstein has been pitted against him
Okay but Dr. Sledge is a marxist and fucking cool. Read his dissertation. I can almost guarantee he has no fucking clue who Destiny is as well, might be a funny watch.
Sadly, it seems that he’s a Zionist. The FAQ section in the bio on his website says, “I am Jewish, belong to the Reconstructionist movement, and closely align myself with the teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan.” Which, as I understand it, makes him a Zionist.
He might not be:
Although the Reconstructionist movement officially supports liberal Zionism, it also has a disproportionate number of anti-Zionist members. Of the Jewish Voice for Peace rabbinical council, about 60 percent of their members were trained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
Wikipedia cites this: https://jewishcurrents.org/a-reconstructionist-reckoning It’s about the increasing tension between the RRC and its non- or anti-Zionist students
Heard. Let’s hope for the best then
That’s genuinely devastating
He’s definitely done a lot of work with academics in occupied Palestine but he also tends to say the right things about the genocide. I don’t think we should make political assumptions about people based on their religious denomination and doctrines. He appears to be a religious Jew and reconstructionism is the denomination that he connects with the most (which is basically the most progressive of all Jewish denominations). I’d rather we judge his politics based on his words and actions about the state and the project rather than his religious affiliation.
“I’d rather we judge his politics based on his words and actions about the state and the project rather than his religious affiliation.”
I didn’t judge his politics based on his religious affiliations. I judged it based on his own quote where he states that he most closely aligns his views with that of a zionist
I may not be the Kaplan expert that you are, but as others have pointed out, a significant number of living anti-Zionist rabbis are reconstructionist, which is a movement Kaplan founded, so I do not think it is a fair inference to say a religious Jew who most closely aligns his religious beliefs with Kaplan is necessarily a Zionist. Unless you are saying Judaism and Zionism are the same thing.
I’m happy for those rabbis who were able to pull their heads out of their asses but we’re decades into the formation of the zionist entity and years into a genocide and if his self-professed ideological stance is, “I closely align with a fascist and their fascist, settler-colonial ideology” without so much a peep decrying the zionist entity then I’m not going to give him the benefit of the doubt. And I don’t understand why you have an expectation of me to do so. Sorry your youtuber is probably a fascist piece of shit.
Isn’t sexpestiny like a hardcore far leftist who proves horseshoe theory? He’s a Batista-Netanyahuist Isn’t he?
Esoterica is an interesting channel, too. Sledge definitely is an expert in his field (religious studies, mysticism/occult) and is a good presenter. Really good if you’re into that sort of thing.
I fw it heavy. Idk if he would entirely approve but I used to get super high and watch Esoterica videos. Still watch them sometimes but sober now which is less fun but I do retain more information.
I love Dr. Sledge.
so two confirmed paedophiles, but two i’ve never heard of - so someone give me the rundown on Hicks & Sledge
also pangburn lmao. just send professor dave to eviscerate these freaks
Yoooo they made ragebait irl!
You’re mocking this? Really? The symposia which is going to raise 20 billion dollars for charity?
Anti obscure edit: Pangburn is an event organizer scammer who has been trying to book debates with Destiny (Bonnell) and public figures with far more importance by conjecturing that they might absurdly generate $5 million or more dollars of net revenue that can be donated to charity
can be donated to charity
I’d watch if it was a battle to the death. I want to see the dude who looks like he’s 900 years old and the dude who looks like he’s 9000 years old pretending to be 30 call a truce and beat destiny to death with baseball bats before getting sledgehammered
Hardest fuck marry kill
Wow I just looked up the first two people they suck so bad and their own very specific ways. Why is Sledge here lmao?
That’s funny, I recognized the other two names, but had to look up Hicks, and when he was about what I expected I thought I didn’t even need to look up Sledge.
Edit - Thanks for posting his dissertation in your other comment – this looks like my kind of read.
OMG, noooo… Not Dr. Sledge?!
“intellectuals”
